All I want is to convene a labor or historian, a trauma specialist, a costume designer, and experts in the various ethno/social groups at hand to discuss Peaky Blinders in depth.
Love the show, though there are some DP/sound design/weak-sauce ghost and truly over-the-top flaws in the most recent season that I hope will not curse the next.
All that heavy breathing/Ghost/aggressively sudden phase light stuff in a couple S5 eps could have been cut and the season would have been totally the better for it!
Did the show runner change? (Too lazy to Google)
5th season quibbles aside, can think of another series that delves into super complicated labor/ethno issues so much and does so without monologuing its way through it.
Also, as a Quaker, the mere acknowledgment of us, particularly our role in centuries worth of dynamic social upheaval, and even if a single character cannot possibly represent us is (possibly dismayingly) gratifying.
But if I had to limit my Qs to any experts/elders it might be: did the Roma Gypsies (term used in show and also elsewhere) and Irish travelers have such alliances/overlaps?
And: how indicative this depiction of ascendant fascism and red to brown (and visa versa) dynamics.
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Perhaps the more salient question re this part of Gaetz's (alleged) behavior is goes to the culture of *other men* who do not object to or report sexual trophy hunting, or worse.
There's a really good tiktok (good luck with search terms, I just tried 😱) of a comedian talking about coming to terms with his friend, the rapist, and not confronting the less-but-telling behavior along the way.
We need more men confronting each other, and themselves like that
1/ While the end of @benyt's piece on Harper's scratches the surface of the insane, persistent dysfunction and inequity that powers that place for decades, the top feels crafted by the unnamed spokesperson (GM) and Rick. nytimes.com/2021/03/28/bus…
2/ Harper's operates like a cult, one that swears even those who leave to some kind oath of silence, in part because they were complicit in the way that staff are underpaid and treated. It takes *decades* for many to wake up.
3/ The fact that no former editors or very senior editorial staff is on record in this piece is telling. Ben's a great reporter, so I'm sure he asked...some of them. Anyway i'd just like to call absolute bullshit on this:
Have spent a not inconsiderable about of time over the last few years trying to discern the divide between those who care deeply about (any!) superhero movie and those who are like, ok that was fun (or not). 1/?
Leans (dramatically?) male and skews (somewhat less dramatically,maybe ) younger, but the real thing I don’t get is the predominance among male political journos which at times seems totally off the charts? Kthnxbai
And I just don’t know what to make of the pairing of political/analytical journalism and extreme, not-just-escapism, fandom of superhero movies; these things would seem to be in at least some opposition.